The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-26

nunS the nVe ROAD agents III virginia WY
and which still adorn the ridge beam OF
the postoficc building. They are ghastly
mementoes of lawlessness, seml-savagery,
and crime: and fearful reminders of the
times which tried mems souls on the
banks of Alder gulch, before law and
order gained the ascendancy over crime
and terrorism.
One of the largest single veins of coal
ever discovered In America is reported to
have lately been found in Northern Mon
tana by prospector named Ed McNamee.
McNamee was interviewed by a reporter
of the Butte Miner, to whom he said the
VEN cropped out over the hills distance
of several miles, and running from fifty
to seventy five feet in thickness. The
vein is in broken country, and dips at
an angle of about AS degrees. 1t is stu
ated about half way between the Rocky
and Bitter Root mountains, and Is un-
doubtedly by far the most important dis
covery of coal on that latitude, east of
the Cascade mountains. McNamee says
he would not call it "a vein, out noun
tam of coal. They traced it across one
range of hills, and lost it in valley, and
then found it on the opposite side OF the
valley cropping out over the hills again.
An important land case was before the
United States court in session at Helena
last week. 1t was that of the Northern
Pacific railroad VS.. C. w. Cannon, a suit
brought by the company for possession OF
100 acres of land in the western part OF
the city valued at a quarter of million.
Cannon took it up as mineral land, and
the railroad company claim it is agflcul-
tural land and within the limits OF their
grant Cannon has mineral patent for
it and filed demurrer to the effect that
when he made proof before the land office
the plaintiff should have made objection,
and failing to do so and the patent having
issued to the defendant it could not be set
aside. The court held that the patent
could not be set aside, but if the plaintiff
proved fraud in securing the patent, the
court could decide that the defendant was
holding the property in trust for the plain
tiff and could compel the defendant to
transfer the property to the rightful claim
ant.
A correspondent writing to the indie
pendent from Boulder says Al. Turner. a
Basin City rough, who has cost jefferson
county within the last year over 5000,
GOT inte one of his favoritc frolics in that
town a few nights ago and received pls-
tol ball in his head alongside of his nose,
causing wound that will probably prove
fatal. Turner, some time ago, was put
under bonds to keep the peace, and not
being peaceably inclined, when this last
row occurred, his bondsman had HIM ar
rested and thrown into Jail, where he has
been for the last three days. His wound
has proven to be of so serious nature
that his physician, Dr.. Leighton, made
affidavit to-day that it would be unsafe tc
keep him confined in Jail any longer, and
had him removed to the Grand Centra
hotel, where he can receive proper atten-
ton and nursing. There has been no com
| plaint made III the last shooting Scrape j.
| which Turner received his wound, and i
is not known who shot him. It was in /
general row, and not less than three OF
four participated in it.